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Prologue In the spring of 1900, sponge divers discovered the Antikythera Mechanism in a sunken ship in the waters of the tiny island of Antikythera, halfway between Crete and Peloponnesos. The reason why the Antikythera Mechanism has been attracting the attention of scientists and scholars for about 120 years is simple. There’s an astronomical computer More
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This content originally appeared on CounterPunch.org and was authored by Evaggelos Vallianatos.